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Our building has been designed by the award winning architects Caruso St John. It has four galleries, superb education and study areas, a performance space, a café-bar and shop.

Collection details

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Exhibition (temporary)

Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas

23 January — 15 March 2015 *on now

Focusing on the Americas, from the Arctic to the Andes, the exhibition explores the greatest challenge of our time – climate change.

This major exhibition includes sculpture, photographs, paintings and installations across all four of Nottingham Contemporary galleries including Subhankar Banerjee’s epic photographs of migratory caribou in northern Alaska, Fernando Palma Rodríguez’s animatronic Monarch butterflies, restoring life to a threatened species, Abel Rodriquez’s exquisite drawings of plants, recording indigenous environmental knowledge passed down through generations, and Paulo Nazareth’s delicate installations of materials collected during his journey, on foot, between Belo Horizonte and New York City.

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The Grand Tour: Pablo Bronstein at Nottingham Contemporary and Chatsworth

3 July — 20 September 2015

The Grand Tour reinterprets world class collections through contemporary art across four venues in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. It is a partnership between Chatsworth, Derby Museums, The Harley Gallery and Nottingham Contemporary together with Experience Nottinghamshire and Visit Peak District and Derbyshire.

The Grand Tour has been funded as part of the Arts Council England and VisitEngland’s joint Cultural Destinations programme. For more information visit thegrandtour.uk.com.

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Three Ecologies

This session will focus on Felix Guattari’s Three Ecologies and employments thereof to address Animism and the nature / culture divide.

Thursday 19 February

Led by Eva Giraud (Keele University)

This session will explore issues and tensions surrounding representation and conservation and will focus on the issue of how environmental destruction can be challenged, without well-intentioned activists from the Global North trying to speak for indigenous populations.

Thursday 5 March

Led by Nic Beuret

Titled Cultures of Catastrophe, this session will focus on climate change and the language of catastrophe in popular and theoretical culture.

Places for these sessions are limited. If you would like to reserve a place please email emma@nottinghamcontemporary.org. Texts will be circulated in advance.

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Places for these sessions are limited. If you would like to reserve a place please email emma@nottinghamcontemporary.org.

Suitable for

Admission

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The Anthropocene: Humanity on the Rocks

3 March 2015 6:30-8:30pm*on now

Academics, artists and activists have increasingly come to describe our current conjuncture as the “age of the Anthropocene” or the “epoch of the human” in which human activities have become a newly determining geological force on Earth’s ecosystems. Debated amongst scientists and in popular accounts, the Anthropocene is figured as evidence of the negative impacts. However, these observations have also been met by a growing commitment - creative, experimental and political - to re-imagine our understanding of environmental uncertainties, and our relation to a newly conceived post-human condition. This panel explores the relationship between aesthetics and environmental precarity, asking what form of social justice and ecological politics does the Anthropocene thesis demand?

Speakers include Dr Jan Zalasiewicz (Convener of the Anthropocene Working Group) and Dr. Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary, University of London). Chaired by Alex Vasudevan (University of Nottingham).

Young People's Programme

Starting in January 2009 Nottingham Contemporary will be running a course for young people aged between 13 and 23 to help them act as arts instigators. They will be trained to design, co-ordinate and deliver a programme of activity for other young people. It will also give them an opportunity to take part in the Arts Council’s arts award scheme.